I have an installation of TFS 2012 bound to a SQL Server 2012 instance. They were both trial versions that I registered today. TFS went down and refused to work for a very good reason: the TFS databases were down on the SQL Server machine. SQL was stating that Database 'Tfs_Configuration' cannot be […]
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Using WinMerge with TFS
I wanted to replace the standard TFS compare/merge tool with WinMerge, especially since the Visual Studio trial I was using expired. It was not possible for me to configure TFS from Visual Studio as it refused to start. Fortunately a one liner allowed me to do it (in a Developer Command Prompt for […]
Upgrade Bios on a not too ancient computer
I got my hand on a 2005 computer which needed some fresh OS and a bios upgrade. The PC didn't have a working floppy drive but could fortunately boot on USB (which is not a given on older computers). The trick was to get a USB stick with a bootable FreeDos on it. It was quite easy! Use gparted to […]